Fasman named Economist’s Washington correspondent

Jon Fasman

Jon Fasman has been named the Washington correspondent at The Economist.

He has previously been with the magazine in Singapore as Southeast Asia bureau chief, where he covered politics, business, finance and economics.

Previously he covered the American South, with a particular focus on crime and American criminal-justice policy.

In addition to his work for The Economist, he is also the author of two novels, both published by The Penguin Press: “The Geographer’s Library,” which was a New York Times bestseller in 2005 and has been translated into more than a dozen languages; and “The Unpossessed City,” which was published in autumn of 2008 and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

Fasman was educated at Brown and Oxford universities and has worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., New York, Oxford, and Moscow.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.